The Two Faces of January by Patricia Highsmith

The Two Faces of January by Patricia Highsmith

Patricia Highsmith's classic novel of psychological suspense now a major film starring Viggo Mortensen and Kirsten Dunst

An offbeat, provocative and absorbing suspense novel-- Anthony Boucher * The New York Times *
Shifts of ground stand metaphor for shifts in relationship; psychology is beautifully interleaved with a gritty genius loci * Library Journal *
With fantastic pace and mounting tension the plot propels you into a nail-biting game of cat-and-mouse. -- Val Hennessy * Daily Mail *
Suspenseful and evocative * Stylist *

Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and moved to New York when she was six, where she attended the Julia Richman High School and Barnard College. In her senior year she edited the college magazine, having decided at the age of sixteen to become a writer. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train, was made into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley, published in 1955, introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley, and was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1999 by Anthony Minghella. Graham Greene called Patricia Highsmith 'the poet of apprehension', saying that she 'created a world of her own - a world claustrophobic and irrational which we enter each time with a sense of personal danger' and The Times named her no.1 in their list of the greatest ever crime writers. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland, in February 1995. Her last novel, Small g: A Summer Idyll, was published posthumously, the same year.

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ISBN 13	9780751555875
ISBN 10	0751555878
Title	The Two Faces of January
Author	Patricia Highsmith
Series	Virago Modern Classics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little, Brown Book Group
Year published	2014-04-10
Number of pages	320
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